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The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) pilot analysis: Multitissue gene regulation in humans

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The GTEx Consortium, Ardlie, Kristin G., Deluca, David S., Segrè, Ayellet V., Sullivan, Timothy J., Young, Taylor R., Gelfand, Ellen T., Trowbridge, Casandra A. +132 more·2015·Science

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Expression, genetic variation, and tissues: Human genomes show extensive genetic variation across individuals, but we have only just started documenting the effects of this variation on the regulation of gene expression. Furthermore, only a few tissues have been examined per genetic variant. In order to examine how genetic expression varies among tissues within individuals, the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Consortium collected 1641 postmortem samples covering 54 body sites from 175 individuals. They identified quantitative genetic traits that affect gene expression and determined which of these exhibit tissue-specific expression patterns. Melé et al. measured how transcription varies among tissues, and Rivas et al. looked at how truncated protein variants affect expression across tissues. Science , this issue p. 648 , p. 660 , p. 666 ; see also p. 640

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  • For the second stage of vision-language alignment (stage 3 of TITAN), a dataset of 182,862 slide-report pairs was curated from in-house clinical reports and pathology notes from the GTEx consortium.

    “For the second stage of vision-language alignment (stage 3 of TITAN), we curated a dataset of 182,862 slide-report pairs from a combination of in-house clinical reports and pathology notes from the GTEx consortium129.”

    From A multimodal whole-slide foundation model for pathology (2025) · cites this paper as [129]

    The Study design section identifies GTEx as a source of human tissue samples, supporting the identification of the consortium. Our copy does not mention pathology notes or establish that they were available for the citing authors’ slide-report pairs. The dataset curation and pair count are presented as the citing authors’ own work, not as findings of this source. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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  • Large consortia projects (GTEx, Epigenome Roadmap, ENCODE) are already generating data from multiple-omics levels that facilitate integrated analyses.

    “Projects from large consortia like GTEx [156], the Epigenome Roadmap [176] and ENCODE [15] are already generating data from multiple-omics levels that facilitate these integrated analyses.”
  • NaV1.2 is widely expressed throughout the human central nervous system but not in peripheral tissues.

    “NaV1.2 is widely expressed throughout the human central nervous system, but not in peripheral tissues [7,8].”

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    The “Gene expression across tissues” section describes broad expression patterns across brain and other tissues, but does not report NaV1.2 expression. Searches for “NaV1.2,” “SCN2A,” and the claimed CNS-versus-peripheral pattern found no passage addressing that specific claim. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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  • Regulatory relationships between non-coding variants and their target genes vary across human cell types, tissues, developmental stages, and species.

    “Such regulatory relationships show substantial heterogeneity across human cell types, tissues, and developmental stages (10), and are often highly species-specific (11).”
  • GTEx data show multiple eQTLs within these enhancers associated with alterations in SCN1A expression in humans.

    “Corroborating this hypothesis, GTEx data show multiple eQTLs within these enhancers that are associated with alterations in SCN1A expression in humans49.”

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The GTEx Consortium, Ardlie, K. G., Deluca, D. S., Segrè, A. V., Sullivan, T. J., Young, T. R., Gelfand, E. T., Trowbridge, C. A., Maller, J. B., Tukiainen, T., Lek, M., Ward, L. D., Kheradpour, P., Iriarte, B., Meng, Y., Palmer, C. D., Esko, T., Winckler, W., Hirschhorn, J. N., Kellis, M., MacArthur, D. G., Getz, G., Shabalin, A. A., Li, G., Zhou, Y.-H., Nobel, A. B., Rusyn, I., Wright, F. A., Lappalainen, T., Ferreira, P. G., Ongen, H., Rivas, M. A., Battle, A., Mostafavi, S., Monlong, J., Sammeth, M., Mele, M., Reverter, F., Goldmann, J. M., Koller, D., Guigó, R., McCarthy, M. I., Dermitzakis, E. T., Gamazon, E. R., Im, H. K., Konkashbaev, A., Nicolae, D. L., Cox, N. J., Flutre, T., Wen, X., Stephens, M., Pritchard, J. K., Tu, Z., Zhang, B., Huang, T., Long, Q., Lin, L., Yang, J., Zhu, J., Liu, J., Brown, A., Mestichelli, B., Tidwell, D., Lo, E., Salvatore, M., Shad, S., Thomas, J. A., Lonsdale, J. T., Moser, M. T., Gillard, B. M., Karasik, E., Ramsey, K., Choi, C., Foster, B. A., Syron, J., Fleming, J., Magazine, H., Hasz, R., Walters, G. D., Bridge, J. P., Miklos, M., Sullivan, S., Barker, L. K., Traino, H. M., Mosavel, M., Siminoff, L. A., Valley, D. R., Rohrer, D. C., Jewell, S. D., Branton, P. A., Sobin, L. H., Barcus, M., Qi, L., McLean, J., Hariharan, P., Um, K. S., Wu, S., Tabor, D., Shive, C., Smith, A. M., Buia, S. A., Undale, A. H., Robinson, K. L., Roche, N., Valentino, K. M., Britton, A., Burges, R., Bradbury, D., Hambright, K. W., Seleski, J., Korzeniewski, G. E., Erickson, K., Marcus, Y., Tejada, J., Taherian, M., Lu, C., Basile, M., Mash, D. C., Volpi, S., Struewing, J. P., Temple, G. F., Boyer, J., Colantuoni, D., Little, R., Koester, S., Carithers, L. J., Moore, H. M., Guan, P., Compton, C., Sawyer, S. J., Demchok, J. P., Vaught, J. B., Rabiner, C. A., Lockhart, N. C., Ardlie, K. G., Getz, G., Wright, F. A., Kellis, M., Volpi, S., & Dermitzakis, E. T.
Affiliations
Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales (FR)
Venue
Science
Published
2015-05-08
Volume
348
Issue
6235
Pages
648-660
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W1533942137
Cited by
5,062
References
83
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FWCI
371.27
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (submittedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
  • UNC Libraries
Funders
  • U.S. National Institutes of Health
  • NIH (HHSN261200800001E, R01 DA006227-17, R01 MH090941, R01 MH090951, R01 MH090937, R01 MH090936, R01 MH090948, R01 GM104371, R01AG046170, R01CA163772, U01AI111598-01)
  • NIMH
  • NIDA
  • NIA
  • NHLBI
  • NHGRI
  • NCI
  • NIAID
  • NINDS
  • Office of the Director
  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute (10XS171)
  • Wellcome Trust (98381)
  • European Research Council
  • Louis-Jeantet Foundation
  • Swiss National Science Foundation
  • NDRI (10XS170)
  • Science Care Inc. (10X172)
  • IDOX (12ST1039)
  • Van Andel Institute (10ST1035)
  • Broad Institute (HHSN268201000029C)
  • Clarendon Scholarship
  • NDM Studentship
  • Univ. of Oxford Green Templeton College Award
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA Research and Splicing
Keywords
gene expression, tissue-specific gene regulation, expression quantitative trait loci, human genetic variation, regulatory networks, genome-wide association study, GTEx, RNA sequencing, tissue heterogeneity
MeSH terms
Alleles, Blood Pressure, Disease, Gene Expression Regulation, Multigene Family, Genotype, Humans, Organ Specificity, Pilot Projects, RNA Splicing, Genetic Variation, Genome, Human, Tibial Arteries, Sequence Analysis, RNA, GTPase-Activating Proteins, RNA, Untranslated, Quantitative Trait Loci, Gene Regulatory Networks, Genome-Wide Association Study, Transcriptome

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